The sudden attack by the bird of prey, which happened last Saturday, made 43-year-old Suzanne Dodd run away from the area, but said the eagle, which was wearing bells and a lead, "did not appear to have any fear of humans". The eagle landed on top of one of her dogs, a Jack Russell terrier, and started dragging it by the head towards a nearby quarry.
The owner, however, put up a fight, grabbing the bird by one of its wings and giving it a kick to get rid of it, whilst saying to herself : "You are not going to fly off with one of my dogs". Immediately after the attack, Dodd put both dogs back on the lead and began running back down the mountain, but the eagle followed her and continued to attack her and her pets up to another 20 times.
She responded by shouting at the bird to make it go away, which in the end it did. The dog in question suffered a small injury to its snout, and Dodd went to the medical centre to have a minor injury to her left hand treated and to receive a tetanus jab. The victim, who described the attack as "surreal and horrible", admitted she got very upset and "panicked". She has made a formal complaint to the police to try to make sure similar "dangerous" attacks don't happen on public footpaths in the future.
2 comments:
How would they stop future attacks? shoot every bird within miles ? maybe put a cage over the path?
*golf applause* Very good, human, very good. That's ZACKLY what we should do when one of our fur family is hunted in our presence. Because we all know that her dogs would have, unhesitatingly, sacrificed their lives were she being attacked. We don't deserve the love of dogs, but we for damn sure should try harder to earn it every day. --A.
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